Sentence examples for trite for from inspiring English sources

But as an alarmist peg it is too trite for Crichton's purposes.

"I was resistant to moving to Williamsburg because it was overly trite for someone in my demographic," said Mr. Roan, 26.

Lake Placid is too trite for that, with Bridget Fonda's parody New Yorker in the sticks taking centre stage, and its main joke is casting Betty White, the prissy one in The Golden Girls, as a foul-mouthed croc-feeder.

The views of racism seem way too trite for a real life story where race and prejudice were probably serious as a heart attack.

Siegel recalls that "He's So Fine," their first effort with the sublime girl group The Chiffons, was thought "too trite" for even b-side status by their label Capitol.

And I admire it, so much, for not succumbing to easy sentiment or trite conclusion, for being, essentially, a simulation of life's unfairness.

So let's review Gene Collier's 29th annual trite awards for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, his rollicking compilation of cliches.

So I've lived around survivors my whole life, but for one who lives with it in the present so much, 'moving' is such a trite word for what it was like to meet him.

In interviews, Peace spoke emphatically of the duty writers had to reflect the messy, unending nature of violent crime and the fact that life rarely brings happy endings or trite "closure" for victims.

Here, though, the movie weighs too much in the direction of another guy who can't commit, a tedious, trite turn for such an agreeably shambling, empathetic screen presence as Mr. Birbiglia, who's best when he's confessing straight into the camera.

Well, It avoids sloganeering and trite commentary, for a start.